I don’t really watch Inside Edition or that entire genre of TV show. However, Deborah Norville has to be the most adorable person alive. I was just watching The Nate Show because I would love to be a decorator and just run through the store with a barcode scanner and be like “I want that and that and that”. She was on The Nate Show yesterday and she was just so encouraging and cute to the woman who she was doing a home makeover for. She even knit a pillow and said that she had been filling it full of good hopes and dreams for this person’s new life and adventure. I guess anyone who’s ever had to make it in Hollywood knows how difficult it is to build a career for yourself no matter the field and there should be some level of respect there.

I thought there was a pretty interesting perspective on relationships on House last night. Dr. Cuddy wanted House to come to her birthday dinner with her mom and of course he didn’t want to. She said that she would be less miserable if he was there even if he’d be more miserable if he was. She said something like “That’s what relationships are, we average our misery”. It was one of the best lines since “Love…and not just the soul killing kind” on Gilmore Girls. For the sake of hope, I really want that statement not to be true but it’s pretty evocative of a lot of relationships I’ve seen, people averaging their misery.

“How I Met Your Mother” always seems to teach me something about relationships, even if it’s just what not to do. There was one episode where Ted went on a blind date and he realized that he had already been on a blind date with that woman a number of years ago. He didn’t like her because she didn’t offer to pay for the check even though he would have and she didn’t like his joke and shellfish.

So they spent the night being brutally honest and reliving their date trying to figure out why they are still single. It even seemed like they would end up with each other for a moment. Like is it the need for acne product reviews that keep people apart? Then Ted said “I remember why I didn’t call you back”. He then explains that he likes his shellfish joke. He doesn’t want to change all the annoying little things about him, he just wants to find someone who also likes those things. It’s a great lesson.